Dr. Alice Le Gall

Dr. Alice Le Gall
Associate Professor
Chair CNES/UVSQ
LATMOS/UVSQ
11 Boulevard D'Alembert, 78 280 Guyancourt, France
4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Cedex 05 Paris, France
Phone (Guy): +33 1 80 28 52 35 – Phone (Jus): +33 1 44 27 21 63
E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
2007
2004
2003
Ph.D. in Planetary Science and RADAR Remote Sensing, University of Paris VI,
affiliated to LATMOS (Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations
Spatiales), France - Advisor : V. Ciarletti & J.J. Berthelier
M.Sc. in Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Paris VII, France
M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Major in: Radiocommunications Engineering,
SUPELEC (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité), Rennes, France
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Since Sept. Associate Professor, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin (UVSQ), France
2011
Scientist at LATMOS, France
2008 - 2011 NASA Postdoctoral Research Fellow (administrated by Oak Ridge Associated
Universities) at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Advisor: Michael A. Janssen
2004 - 2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Paris VI, France
AWARDS & GRANTS
2015
2013-2017
2011-2016
2008-2011
2009
Fall 2006
2004-2007
DIM-ACAV “Equipements petits et moyens” (29.1k€) and CNES (Proposition
Scientifique de Recherche Scientifique) (20k€) grants for the PAP (Permittivité
d’Analogues Planétaires) project, PI
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) « ExoDunes », Characterization of the
EXtra-terrestrial environments of Mars and Titan by the Observation and
simulation of DUNE field, Co-Investigator, PI: Sébastien Rodriguez (AIM-CEA)
Chair of Excellence CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)/UVSQ
NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Gabrielle Sand, Dina, Frédéric Fortuny Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
Grant from the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Visiting
Graduate Student at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Houston, USA)
Fellowship from the French Ministry of Research
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Lectured courses: Radiative transfer (10h/years since 2011) in M.Sc. in Planetary Science
(M2)
Supervising exercices: Physics to students in medical studies (24h/year since 2011) – Optic
and Electricity (L1) (27h/year since 2014– Electromagnetism (L2) (27h/year, 2012, 2013)
On-line courses: Courses on Planetary Surfaces for the website SEPS (Science pour les
Exoplanètes et les Systèmes Planétaires) (L3)
https://dev-lesia.obspm.fr/webjaxe/sites/site-sesp/index.html
Qualification: in sections 34 and 63 from the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), France,
2008-2012
MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Ph.D. Co-Advisor: Ph.D. in Planetary Science: Yann Hervé (2015+), Anthony Lethuillier (DIMACAV grant, 2013+)
Masters Degree Co-Advisor or Advisor: M.Sc. in Planetary Sciences/Environmental
Sciences/Remote Sensing: Gaëlle Veyssière (M2, 2015), Yann Hervé (M2, 2015), Gaëlle
Veyssière (M1, 2014), Aurélien Stolzenbach (M2, 2012), Arnaud Amadjike (M2, 2006),
Filippo Bucci (M2, 2006), Evelyne Rasamoelina (M1, 2005)
Undergraduate Co-Advisor: Etienne Vanpeene (MPSI, 2015), Saptarshi Chaudhuri (JPL
Summer Intern, 2010)
NASA/ESA MISSION PARTICIPATION AND RESEARCH PROPOSALS
•
Science teams: Co-I on the Permitivity Probe (PP)/SESAME experience on board the Philae
Lander of the ESA ROSETTA mission (since 2011, 75k€/year during 4 years from CNES),
Associate Member of the Cassini RADAR Team (since 2010), Co-I on the Ground Penetrating
Radar WISDOM (Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observations on Mars) selected for the
ESA 2018 ExoMars Mission (since 2007).
Instrument proposals: Co-I on the Ground Penetrating Radar SubEx proposed for Mars 2020
Rover, PI: Valérie Ciarletti, submitted in Jan 2014, not selected - Co-I on LIME (Low
Irradiance Monitor of Energy) for the ESA JUICE mission, PI: Osgür Karatekin, Oct. 2012,
not selected - Co-I on the Ground Penetrating Radar EISS proposed for ESA ExoMars, PI:
J.J. Berthelier, now descoped.
Mission proposal: CoI on EnVision (mission to Venus) M5 ESA proposal, lead of VenSAR
radiometry experiment, PI: Richard Ghail – Science Team Member on the RAVEN (Radar for
VENus) Discovery proposal, PI: Buck Sharpton, not selected - Associate on the ESA White
Papers for the definition of the L2 and L3 missions, The Exploration of Titan from an
Orbiter and Lake-Probe", PI: Giuseppe Mitri, May 2013 - Associate on the ESA White Paper
“Joint exploration of Titan and Enceladus”, PI: Gabriel Tobie and Nick Teanby, 2012 Collaborator on the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts “Amphibian Rover for Titan’s
Exploration”, PI: Mathieu Choukroun, submitted in April 2012.
Mission design: NASA/JPL Team-X mission design workshop for a Ganymede Orbiter concept
study, Jet Propusion Laboratory (August 2010).
Research proposals: ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) « Icy Hazy Worlds»,
Hydrocarbon cycles on two icy hazy worlds: Titan and Pluto, Co-Investigator, PI: Sandrine
Vinatier (LESIA), submitted in 2015 - DIM-ACAV “Equipements petits et moyens” proposal
for the PAP (Permittivité d’Analogues Planétaires) project, PI, selected in 2015 (29.1k€) –
Scientific Research proposal at CNES for the PAP project, PI, selected in 2015 (20k€) - ANR
(Agence Nationale de la Recherche) « ExoDunes », Characterization of the EXtra-terrestrial
environments of Mars and Titan by the Observation and simulation of DUNE field, CoInvestigator, PI: Sébastien Rodriguez (AIM-CEA), selected in 2013 – Several NASA CDAP
(Cassini Data Analysis Program), OPR (Outer Planet Research) and MFRP (Mars Fundamental
Research Program) proposals as PI, CoI or Collaborator.
COMMUNITY CONVENER AND REFEREE EXPERIENCE
Session organizer: European Planetary Science Conference, “Titan: Surface and Interior”
Session, 2015 - “Seasonal effects in the Solar System” Session, 2014, 2013, 2012.
Session chair: Third International Planetary Dunes Workshop, “Remote Sensing and Image
Analysis of Planetary Dunes » Session, June 2012 - Division for Planetary Science
Conference, Titan session, 2009.
Peer Reviewer: Various papers for the Journal of Geophysical Research, Icarus, Planetary &
Space Science and Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Encyclopedia of Planetary
Landforms – Springer.
Panel Reviewer: External reviewer for the NASA Outer Planets Research program, Jan. 2014,
Feb. 2013.
Referee of academic positions : External examiner for a position of Associate Professor at
Aix-Marseille Université, LAM (Laboraoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) (MCF n°186), 2014
Referee of academic degrees: Examiner of the Ph.D. of Axel Lefèvre, University of Nantes,
France, Nov. 2014
INVITED TALKS, SEMINARS & OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Invited talks at international conferences: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2 invited talks
in the Sessions « Titan-Understanding Saturn’s Mysterious Moon » and « Judging a Book by
Its Cover: From Surface Observations to Interiors of Small Bodies, Ice Satellites, and
Planets », Dec. 2015 - AGU Fall Meeting, Session Titan, San Francisco, Dec. 2010.
Invited seminars Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géologie de Nantes (LPGN), France, May
2012 - LATMOS, France, May 2011 - « Théminaire » of Observatoire de Paris-Meudon,
France, Nov. 2009 - Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, July 2009 - Caltech Planetary
Science Seminar, Pasadena, June 2009.
Press-release of first-author papers : ESA/NASA Joint press release « Cassini's radar observes
Titan's tropical dune fields », Jan. 2012 - NASA press-release « Rock and Roll: Titan's Gem
Tumbler », Nov. 2010.
E/PO: Participation to the partnership between LATMOS and Ecole Estienne (school of art and
graphic design), 2015 - Organization of a seminar on Rosetta at IPSL (Institut Pierre et
Simon Laplace) for the first anniversary of Philae landing on comet 67P/C-G, interview
with TVFIL 78, Nov. 2015 – Vidéo for the UVSQ website « Questions pour un chercheur »
(http://www.uvsq.fr/questions-pour-un-chercheur-alice-le-gall), 2015 - Contribution to
the French DIM-ACAV web-site and to a scientific event in the parisian subway
« L’astronomie se la raconte » (http://www.lastronomieselaraconte.fr/), 2014 Participation
to
the
CNRS
event
« Un
instrument,
un
chercheur »
(http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/rosetta) for the landing of Philae/ROSETTA on comet
67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko. Involvement in the exhibition “Mars en Mars “(IPSL), 2007 Organization in the Palais de la Découverte (a French great museum dedicated to Science)
of a workshop on water, 2006 - Various Astrophysics/Planetary Science public lectures,
since 2006.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS
Training courses : Media Training, DR5, Meudon, France, Nov. 2014 – NASA Planetary Science
Summer School, JLP, Pasadena, USA, July 2010 – Exobiology Summer School, Propriano,
France, Sept. 2005
Organizational duties: Member of the board of the « Pole Système Solaire of IPSL », since
2015
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Publications
27. Janssen, M.A., A. Le Gall, R.M. Lopes, R.D. Lorenz, M.J. Malaska, A.G. Hayes, C.D. Neish,
A. Solomonidou, K.L. Mitchell, J. Radebaugh, S.J. Keihm , M. Choukroun, C. Leyrat, P.J.
Encrenaz, and M. Mastrogiuseppe (2015), Titan’s Surface at 2.18-cm Wavelength Imaged
by the Cassini RADAR Radiometer: Results and Interpretations through the First Ten Years
of Observation. Icarus, 2015, in press, doi: 10.1016/jicarus.2015.09.027.
26. Bonnefoy L. E., Hayes A. G., Hayne P. O., Malaska M. J., Le Gall A., Solomonidou A.,
Lucas (2015), Compositional and spatial variations in Titan dune and interdune regions
from Cassini VIMS and RADAR, Icarus, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.09.014.
25. Lorenz R. D., A. Le Gall, M.A. Janssen (2015), Detecting Volcanism on Titan and Venus
with Microwave Radiometry (2015), Icarus
24. Ciarletti, V., A. Le Gall, Ch. Corbel, F. Dolon, R. Ney, J.J. Berthelier (2015),
Experimental validation in the West Egyptian desert of a bi-static Ground Penetrating
Radar designed for deep sub-surface planetary exploration, Planetary and Space Science
117, 177-183.
23. Neish C.D., J.W. Barnes, C. Sotin, S. MacKenzie, J.M. Soderblom, S. Le Mouélic, R.L. Kirk,
B.W. Stiles, M.J. Malaska, A. Le Gall, R.H. Brown, K.H. Baines, B. Buratti, R.N.Clark, P.D.
Nicholson (2015), Spectral properties of Titan’s impact craters imply chemical weathering
of its surface, Geophysical Research Letters, 42 (10), 3746-3754.
22. Biancheri-Astier, M., V. Ciarletti, A. Reineix, A. Le Gall, Optimization of the antennas of
the EISS radar designed to perform deep Martian sub-surface sounding (2015), IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), 53 (8), 4627-4637.
21. Le Gall, A., C. Leyrat, M.A Janssen,S. Keihm,L.C Wye, R. West, R.D Lorenz, F. Tosi
(2014), Iapetus' near surface thermal emission modeled and constrained using Cassini
RADAR Radiometer microwave observations, Icarus 241, 221–238.
20. Hofgartner, J., Hayes, A., Lunine, J., Zebker, H., Stiles, B., Sotin, C, Barnes, J. W.,
Turtle, E., Baines, K., Brown, R., Buratti, B., Clark, R., Encrenaz, P., Kirk, R., Le Gall, A.,
Lopes, R., Lorenz, R., Malaska, M., Mitchell, K., Nicholson, P., Paillou, Ph., Radebaugh, J.,
Wall, S. and Wood, C., The discovery of transient features in a Titan sea (2014), Nature
Geoscience 7, 493–496.
19. Paillou, Ph., J. Radebaugh, R.D. Lorenz, A. Le Gall, T. Farr (2014), Modeling the SAR
Backscatter
of
Linear
Dunes
on
Earth
and
Titan,
Icarus
230,
208214doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.04.017.
18. Zebker H., A.H. Hayes, M. Janssen, A. Le Gall, R.D. Lorenz, L.C. Wye, Surface of Ligeia
Mare, Titan, from Cassini altimeter and radiometer analysis (2014), Geophysical Research
Letters, 41 (2), 308-313, doi: 10.1002/2013GL058877.
17. Rodriguez, S., A. Garcia, A. Lucas, T. Appéré, A. Le Gall, E. Reffet, L. Le Corre, S. Le
Mouélic, T. Cornet, S. Courrech du Pont, C. Narteau, O. Bourgeois, J. Radebaugh, K.
Arnold, J.W. Barnes, C. Sotin, R.H. Brown, R.D. Lorenz, E.P. Turtle, Global mapping and
characterization of Titan’s dune fields with Cassini: correlation between RADAR and VIMS
observations (2014), Icarus 230, 168-179, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.11.017.
16. Le Gall, A., M.A. Janssen, R.L. Kirk, R.D. Lorenz, Modeling microwave backscatter and
thermal emission from fields of linear dunes: Application to Titan (2014), Icarus 230, 198207, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.009.
15. Fenton, L.K., R.K. Hayward, B.H.N. Horgan, D.M. Rubin, T.N. Titus, M.A. Bishop, D.M.
Burr, M. Chojnacki, C.L. Dinwiddie, L. Kerber, A. Le Gall, T.I. Michaels, L.D.V. Neakrase,
C.E. Newman, D. Tirsch, H. Yizhaq, J.R. Zimbelman (2013), Summary of the Third
International Planetary Dunes Workshop: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis of Planetary
Dunes, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, June 12–15, 2012, Aeolian Research 8, 29–38.
14. Lopes, R., R. Kirk, K. Mitchell, A. Le Gall, J. Barnes , A. Hayes , J. Kargel , L. Wye , J.
Radebaugh , E.R. Stofan , M.A. Janssen , C. Neish , S. Wall , C. Wood , J. Lunine , M.
Malaska. (2013), Cryovolcanism on Titan: New results from Cassini RADAR and VIMS, J.
Geophys. Res.:Planets, vol. 118, 1-20, doi:10.1029/2012JE004239.
13. Le Gall, A., A.G. Hayes, R. Ewing, M.A. Janssen, J. Radebaugh, C. Savage, P. Encrenaz
and the Cassini Radar Team (2012), Latitudinal and altitudinal controls of Titan’s dune
field morphometry, Icarus 217, 231-242.
12. Le Gall, A., M.A Janssen, L.C. Wye, A.G. Hayes, J. Radebaugh, C. Savage, H. Zebker,
R.D. Lorenz, J.I. Lunine, R.L. Kirk, R.M.C. Lopes, S. Wall, P. Callahan, E.R. Stofan, T. Farr
and the Cassini Radar Team (2011), SAR, radiometry, scatterometry and altimetry
observations of Titan’s dune fields, Icarus 213, 608-624.
11. Jones, B., Vogt, M.F., M. Chaffin, M. Choukroun, N. Ehsan, L. Gibbobs, K. Lynch, K.
Singer, D. Blackburn, G. DiBraccio, D. Gleeson, A. Le Gall, T. MacEnulty, E. Rampe, C.
Schrader, L. Seward, I. Smith, C. Tsang, P. Williamson, J. Castillo, C. Budney (2011),
Concept for a New Frontiers Mission to Ganymede: A Planetary Science Summer School
Study, IEEE Aerospace, paper #1783.
10. Janssen, M.A., A. Le Gall and L.C. Wye (2011), Anomalous radar backscatter from Titan’s
surface? Icarus 212, Issue 1, 321-328.
9. Lorenz, R.D., E.P. Turtle, B. Stiles, A. Le Gall, A. Hayes, O. Aharonson, C.A. Wood, E.
Stofan (2011), Hypsometry of Titan, Icarus 211, 699-706, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.002
8. Radebaugh, J., R.D. Lorenz, S.D. Wall, R.L. Kirk, C.A. Wood, J.I. Lunine, E.R. Stofan, R. M.
C. Lopes, P. Valora, T.G. Farr, A.G. Hayes, B. Stiles, G. Mitri, H. Zebker, M.A. Janssen,
L.C. Wye, A. Le Gall, K.L. Mitchell and the Cassini Radar Team (2011), Regional
geomorphology and history of Titan’s Xanadu province, Icarus 211, 672-685,
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.07.022.
7. Le Gall, A., M.A. Janssen, R.D. Lorenz, P. Paillou, S.D. Wall and the Cassini Radar Team
(2010), Radar-bright channels on Titan, Icarus 207, 948–958.
6. Wall, S., A. Hayes, C. Bristow, R. Lorenz, J. Lunine, A. Le Gall, M.A. Janssen, E. Stofan, L.
Wye, L. Soderblom, H. Zebker, T. Farr, R. Kirk (2010), The active shoreline of Ontario
Lacus, Titan: a morphological study of the lake and its surroundings, Geophysical Research
Letters, Volume 37, L05202, doi:10.1029/2009GL041821.
5. Lopes, R.M.C., E.R. Stofan, R. Peckyno, J. Radebaugh, K.L. Mitchell, G. Mitri, C. A. Wood,
R.L. Kirk, S.D. Wall, J.I. Lunine, A. Hayes, R.D. Lorenz, T.G. Farr, L. Wye, J. Craig, R.J.
Ollerenshaw, M. Janssen, A. Le Gall, F. Paganelli, R. West, B. Stiles, S.J. Ostro, P.
Callahan, Y. Anderson, P. Valora, and the Cassini RADAR Team (2010), Distribution and
interplay of geologic processes on Titan from Cassini RADAR, Icarus 205, 540-588,
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.08.010.
4. Janssen, M.A., R.D. Lorenz, R. West, F. Paganelli, R. M. Lopes, R.L. Kirk, C. Elachi, S.D.
Wall, W.T.K. Johnson, Y. Anderson, R.A. Boehmer P. Callahan, Y. Gim, G.A. Hamilton,
K.D. Kelleher, L. Roth, B. Stiles, A. Le Gall and the Cassini Radar Team (2009), Titan’s
Surface at 2.2-cm Wavelength Imaged by the Cassini RADAR Radiometer: Calibration and
First Results, Icarus, 200, 222–239, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.017
3. Le Gall, A., V. Ciarletti, J.J. Berthelier, A. Reineix, C. Guiffaut, R. Ney, F. Dolon, S.
Bonaimé, R. Clairquin, D. Nevejans (2008), An imaging HF GPR using stationary antennas:
Experimental validation over the Antarctic ice sheet, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, Volume 46, Issue 12, 3975-3986, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000718.
2. Le Gall, A., A. Reineix, V. Ciarletti, J. J Berthelier, R. Ney, F. Dolon, and C. Corbel (2006),
An estimation of the electrical characteristics of planetary shallow subsurfaces with TAPIR
antennas, J. Geophys. Res.: Planets 111, E06S06, doi: 10.1029/2005JE002595.
1. Berthelier J.J., S. Bonaimé, V. Ciarletti, R. Clairquin, F. Dolon, A. Le Gall, D. Nevejans, R.
Ney, A. Reineix (2005), Initial results of the NETLANDER imaging ground penetrating radar
operated on the Antarctic ice shelf, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L22305,
10.1029/2005GL024203
Book
Contribution in :
Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms, ed. Hargitai, H., and A. Kereszturi, New York: SpringerVerlag New York Inc. 2014, ISBN 978-1461431350.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS/PRESENTATIONS
Numerous. Contact for details.